Blanche D'Alpuget and Don Watson

Blance D'Alpuget is an author seven times over, including Robert J Hawke: A Biography, published in 1982, and now Hawke: The Prime Minister.

Done Watson is also a prolific writer; in 1992 he became Paul Keating's speech writer and advisor and in 2002 published his account of the era, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart which fast became a best seller.